A “Swell’s” Homage to Mrs. Stowe Punch

A must wead Uncle Tom—a wawk
Which A’m afwaid’s extwemely slow,
People one meets begin to talk
Of Mrs. HARWIETBEECHASTOWE.

’Tis not as if A saw ha name
To walls and windas still confined;
All that is meawly vulga fame:
A don’t wespect the public mind.

But Staffa’d House has made haw quite
Anotha kind a pawson look,
A Countess would pasist, last night,
In asking me about haw book.

She wished to know if I admiawd
EVA, which quite confounded me;
And then haw Ladyship inqwaw’d
Whethaw A did’nt hate LEGWEE?

Bai JOVE! A was completely flaw’d;
A wish’d myself, or haw, at Fwance;
And that’s the way a fella’s baw’d
By ev’wy gal he asks to dance.

A felt myself a gweat a fool
Than A had evaw felt befaw;
A’ll study at some Wagged School
The tale of that old Blackamaw!